Eureka weekly sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1887-1902, 1887-11-05
HUBY HILL.


Hint.
The present week opened so dull il
Eureka that it seemed as if our ore hat
petered out, our lead pot had cracked, on,
speiss racket had ended, our fue dust hat
passed into the atmosphere in fumes, ant
nothing but Stag was left us to run on
1t is a cold day, however, when our re
porter gets left, and being of a hopeful
turn of mind he sauntered down the street
to see if he could dig up an item. Not
even a dore bar was thrown in his way,
but the delivery wagon of r. Sadler h Co
hove in sight, and he got alongside of The
driver and sped to Ruby Hill, where he
thought the chances for items might have
been more propitious. Everything looked
unusually quiet. While there arc not al
many people on the hill as in former
years. every man who lives there has work
An occasional JET of steam, and the
smoke stacks of the Richmond, Eureka
Con. and Jackson hosting works bore
evidence OF greater activity underground
than could be seen OF the surface. There
is considerable prospecting being done in
the Richmond mine; quite a number Of
men are employed there on days pay, and
several IN tribute, are taking out ore. At
the jackson mine considerable ore is be-
ing raised. AT the Eureka Con. there
were tributers occasionally coming to the
surface from the depths below, some of
whom had been looking for o "pitch," and
had gone through the mine for that pur.
pose. From them our reporter obtained a
few points. Said one man, "there is
plenty of unprospected ground on the
upper levels OF the mine, and I don't see
why there should not be ore in it that will
pay the company to work as well the
tributers." We have often heard similar
remarks of late, and further than this, we
find that some of the Oldest and most ex-
perienced miners on the hill ere growing
stronger in the belief that if work Is re-
sumed in the LOGAN shaft, and the mine is
prospected at greater depth than has yet
been attempted, results satisfactory to the
company will follow. When the COM
pany was getting large quantities of ore
was the time that the mine should have
been thoroughly explored, both on the
upper levels and in the depths below. At
present the mine is yielding only a small
profit if any. The speiss at the furnace
dumps is. however, being %overhauled and
ia 1hC luOSt dppION6u SySL6u1
under the superintendency of L. w.
Davis, a man of thorough experience in
smelling and refining. The company are
receiving all the custom ores they can
conveniently handle, and from the speiss
and custom ores the company are realizing
considerable profit. That the profits now
accruing to the company should go entirely
to paying dividends to the shareholders
would be good policy, no man of fair judy
ment can be brought to believe, nor do we
think that the company desire it. Mr..
Donnelly, the Superintendent, is a gentle
man of great experience in all branches of
mining, and also observant and shrewd.
lie is, furthermore, very conservative, and
is the least likely of all others to advise
his company to take steps calculated to
run them in debt, but should he advise his
company to resume work in the LOGAN
shaft and extend exploration to depths yet
u%nattained, we believe that such advice
would receive merited attention from
them. Jumbo" by which name the pom
dereus machinery that was removed from
the big shaft about two Iyears ago is
known, has been set aside and is now lying
idle, but new and adequate machinery is in
its place, needing but very little improve
ment to put it in running order. The
Burleigh drill is being used to push explor-
atlOnS IN the tunnel ~ feet below the sur.
face, on the west side of the hill, and if
new developments are made in ore on this
level, we have not the least doubt that
other and more extensive explorations will
follow. 1t is not probable, or even reason
able, that after so much money has been
spent in the purchase and extraction of
such ponderous machinery as that now in
place in the LOGAN shaft, that it will re-
main idle much longer, and we confidently
expect, considering the present prosperous
condition of the company, that it will be
put to the use intended for it, not later
than the coming Spring of 1888. Should
our expectations be realized we shall look
forward to a long period of almost unlim-
tied prosperity in Eureka District. In the
mean time we would say to the Richmond,
Jackson and Phenix Companies that they
would, each and all of them, lie benefited
by the water drainage that would result to
their mines from the water being pumped
out of the LOGAN shaft, or the opportunity
that would be afforded to them, in such
case, to explore the lower levels which at
present they are unable to do.